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The dog is a familiar style - I've seen these in neodynum glass too, but I don't think a maker has been pinned down.There's an image of a blue one on p.57 of Nigel's "Glass of the 50s& '60s; A Collector's Guide", from the Miller's series of Collector's Guides. Only id'd as Murano.

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It's rather distinctive, isn't it, Max? Not something you could miss if you tried!The fringe bits remind me a little of somebody's massive neodynum horse head which was posted here a while ago. (sorry, can't remember much about it - not my area and I didn't like it, so I didn't persevere with reading the thread).

There's on a little bit like it on the Miller's site. (I think this one is a devil-dog. It looks quite evil.)

I don't think anyone knows who did most of these dogs. I have a feeling that many companies did their own versions. Archimede Seguso may have done the original dogs, but they were distinctive with their long noses and hanging heads. Trying to find attributions on them is very difficult if not impossible, so most just call them Murano glass. ICET does some of them, but they are easy to pick out. Yours looks like Murano glass to me.

I saw those on eBay, but I don't remember if any were signed. The Toffolos of Murano do/did lamp work. Cesare, who still makes glass, does elegant forms unlike these dogs. These dogs look like furnace creations to me, so I wouldn't have even considered the Toffolos. There may be a Toffolo I haven't read about, however. Maybe the one that set up shop in the UK? I don't know a lot about him beyond the human figures they made.

I only know of Franco Toffolo - (who has been in the uk - at Caithness here in Scotland and latterly, in retirement, with Willie Manson and "a Scottish Glassmaker", also in Scotland) but he is now fully retired and living in England. I know his work can be very exhuberant, and that he has tremendous skill, but I never considered him for these dogs. Never say never, though!

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